Английская Википедия:After the Dance (song)

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Шаблон:For Шаблон:Infobox song "After the Dance" is a slow jam recorded by singer Marvin Gaye and released as the second single off Gaye's 1976 hit album I Want You. Though it received modest success, the song was widely considered to be one of Gaye's best ballads[1] and served as part of the template for quiet storm and urban contemporary ballads that came afterwards.[2]

Overview

Written by Gaye and his co-producer Leon Ware, the song narrates a moment where the author noticed a woman on Soul Train and convinces her to "get together" after the two shared a dance.[1] Throughout the entire I Want You album, which was dedicated to Marvin's live-in lover Janis Hunter (who wrote a 2015 memoir entitled After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye),[3] the narrator — Gaye — brings up the dance concept in songs such as "Since I Had You".[4][5]

The song also served in a funky instrumental, which included a synthesizer solo performed by Gaye[1][6] just days before the master for the I Want You album was due at Motown.[7] The instrumental version received a nomination at the 1977 Grammy Awards for Best R&B Instrumental Song.[8]

The song was Gaye's lowest-peaked pop single for the first time in 13 years since the B-side of his "Can I Get a Witness" titled "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby", peaking at number 74,[9] ironically three places higher than "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby", while it was a bigger success on the R&B chart, peaking at number 14.[1][6]

Recording

The basic track of "After the Dance" was recorded for Gaye with the working title "Don't You Wanna Come?" on September 1975.[6]

The overdubbing sessions took place between January 1976 to March 1976.[6][7]

Covers

The song has since been covered by a legion of jazz vocalists and groups including Fourplay, who covered it with longtime Gaye admirer, R&B singer El DeBarge, in 1991.[10] Their version was released as a single that year and re-introduced newer listeners to Gaye's original.[11]

Hall & Oates covered the song on their 2004 album Our Kind of Soul.[12]

Personnel

Personnel per David Ritz and Harry Weinger.[6][7]

  • Lead, background vocals, piano and synthesizer by Marvin Gaye
  • Instrumentation by various studio musicians, some of which include, drummer James Gadson and flutist Ernie Watts (featured on the instrumental version)
  • Orchestral arrangements by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
  • Rhythm arrangements by Leon Ware
  • Produced by Leon Ware and Marvin Gaye
  • Recording engineering by Art Stewart and Fred Ross

References

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Шаблон:Marvin Gaye Шаблон:Marvin Gaye singles


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Шаблон:1970s-R&B-song-stub Шаблон:1970s-single-stub

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 Шаблон:Cite web
  2. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  3. ↑ Lary Wallace, "Marvin’s Muse", Los Angeles Review of Books, September 18, 2015.
  4. ↑ Torres (2003)
  5. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  6. ↑ 6,0 6,1 6,2 6,3 6,4 Ritz (2003)
  7. ↑ 7,0 7,1 7,2 Weinger (2003)
  8. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  9. ↑ Шаблон:Cite magazine
  10. ↑ Шаблон:Citation
  11. ↑ "After the Dance" at SecondHandSongs.
  12. ↑ Шаблон:Citation
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